Air France, French Bee, and La Compagnie also operate nonstop service between New York and Paris. I wouldn’t be holding my breath for all of them to play that game and not undercut each other for more fares when possible

It’s certainly possible JetBlue stumbles, but I think it would be due to competition and not collusion

It was a stateless vessel hauling ammonium perchlorate… They may as well have painted “Explosives 4 Sale” right on the side, like are you for real dude lol

Hence my last sentence. I expect humanity to survive global warming, but I’m expecting levels of death and suffering not experienced for centuries. Think Bubonic Plague or Manifest Destiny levels of collapse where entire continents are heavily depopulated. For an allegedly intelligent species we’re collectively pretty dumb

India is industrializing. This is kind of the natural progression of industrialization. Historically it takes a generation or two of a population living through the shit before they simultaneously realize how bad it is AND have the resources and institutional knowledge to implement and manage higher levels of tech to mitigate It

Look at the US. It took us accidentally lighting the Cuyahoga River on fire before voters all agreed “okay I guess we need some kind of environmental agency” and then it took another twenty years before we started to get sulfur emissions and smog under control

Personally, I expect the wealthy developed world to do a lot more legwork cleaning things up, especially because our wealth largely comes from polluting the hardest the last century(and we are still polluting at higher per capita rates). If that means going into India and building them cleaner factories ourselves, that’s a better investment than just waiting for war to break out as ecosystems collapse. Unfortunately it seems most our species prefer the latter

I don’t think you appreciate just how much Americans consume today. At no point in Eliot Ness’s life were Americans averaging consuming more alcohol than is occurring today. That includes pre-Prohibition. We drink considerably more now, 140,000 Americans die annually from excessive drinking

This article was pre-pandemic, drinking has gone up even from then.

https://apnews.com/article/public-health-health-statistics-health-us-news-ap-top-news-f1f81ade0748410aaeb6eeab7a772bf7

Do you have some counter report that better gauges interest? Or are you just mad that numbers don’t fit your desired narrative?

Edit: Jimmies so rustled that he blocked me lol

A lot more people have watched the Lord of the Rings than have watched Game of Thrones. Lord of the Rings is also generally recognized as fine for families, not a lot of parents are settling in with their middle schoolers to watch gratuitous sex on House of Dragon.

Those two things make the IP a lot more approachable to more people.

Amazon isn’t the only company to invest money in. This isn’t about people not accepting what Amazon is doing, it’s more them thinking maybe there might be other companies that do better and preferring to gamble on them instead.

If Amazon projects lower growth you really don’t think it’s reasonable for some investors to look around and see if there’s companies more optimistic and switch over their holdings? Because that’s what is happening here.

The fastest way to work it out is to force the market’s hand. That’s how you get legions of engineers thrown at problems with the resources and support to push solutions over the goal line, you give companies no fucking choice

And yeah, it’s going to be expensive. No one suggested fixing centuries of climate damage wouldn’t be. People need to get used to making due with less

"refill"

They wanted to bring the reserve back to 2008 levels, where the Bush administration had it. The same Bush administration that was so deep in Big Oil's pocket they falsified the existence of WMD's in order to start a war over oil.

We never needed reserves that large which was why we reduced them and kept them lower when a saner administration entered office. If our 2020 reserves weren't sufficient we'd be wiped out right now, but we're still sitting on 400 million barrels and don't need to rush to bring that up.

> In my decades of driving I’ve never

I’m actually involved with automotive safety in a professional regard so I’m acutely aware just how useless anecdotes like this are. My grandmother never wore a seatbelt and died from lung disease at the age of 97. Does that make seat belts pointless? Obviously no.

Likewise the fact that you haven’t happened to hit a person on the road at night obscured by the dark doesn’t mean it’s safe to bike or walk on roads at night without lights or reflectors

I never suggested a lack of reflectors would excuse a hit and run, but don’t outright lie and declare visibility wasn’t possibly a factor when this happened at night with an apparently unlit vehicle. We don’t need people lying and hiding risks that are important for people to know about. Too few people appreciate how hard it is to see pedestrians at night, and they disregard safe practices near the road, and people like you promote that needlessly risky behavior by trying to hide what it may lead to

I don’t see lights or reflectors on that bike and this occurred in the evening around 9pm. Are there any? Because I wouldn’t expect a flag or matte paint colors to do anything to increase visibility at night.

I’m not so sure that visibility didn’t play any role here